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Order Without Social Norms
(Northwestern University Law Review, 2005)
This Article tackles a leading problem confronting norms theorists and regulators: how can the law induce changes in behavior when the material costs to the individual outweigh the benefits and there is no close-knit ...
Copyright Infringement and the Separated Powers of Moral Entrepreneurship
(American Criminal Law Review, 2014)
This Article examines the copyright industries’ “moral entrepreneurs,” sociologist Howard Becker’s term for enterprising crusaders who seek to change existing social norms regarding particular conduct. Becker’s conception ...
Remaking the United States Supreme Court in the Courts' of Appeals Image
(Duke Law Journal, 2009)
We argue that Congress should remake the United States Supreme Court in the U.S. courts' of appeals image by increasing the size of the Court's membership, authorizing panel decision making, and retaining an en banc procedure ...
Navigating the Research Clinic--Clinical Interface in Genomic Medicine
(Genetics in Medicine, 2018)
Purpose: The Clinical Sequencing Exploratory Research (CSER) Consortium encompasses nine National Institutes of Health–funded U-award projects investigating translation of genomic sequencing into clinical care. Previous ...
Is it Time for a Universal Genetic Forensic Database?
(Science, 2018)
There is evidence that existing forensic databases have more than made up for their initial costs by increasing the efficiency, accuracy, and success rate of ongoing criminal investigations and by deterring would-be crimals. ...
The Rutabaga That Ate Pittsburgh
(Virginia Law Review, 1986)
When the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) first approved a field test of a bioengineered microbe, one EPA official remarked: "We're not expecting this to be the rutabaga that eats Pittsburgh.' But regulators
cannot ...
Federal Preemption and Immigrants' Rights
(Wake Forest Journal of Law & Policy, 2013)
Recently, immigration scholars have focused on the relationship between federal, state, and local governments in regulating immigration to the exclusion of civil rights issues. States and localities assert that they should ...
Is Groton the Next "Evenwel"?
(Michigan Law Review Online, 2018)
In Evenwel v Abbott the Supreme Court left open the question of whether states could employ population measures other than total population as a basis for drawing representative districts so as to meet the requirement of ...
Countering Nationalist Oligarchy
(Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, 2019)
The real threat to liberal democracy isn’t authoritarianism--it's nationalist oligarchy. Here's how American foreign policy should change.
Payday Loans and Credit Cards
(American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 2009)
Using a unique dataset matched at the individual level from two administrative sources, we examine household choices between liabilities and assess the informational content of prime and subprime credit scores in the ...